The toys-originally meant to entertain children-entered the national spotlight toward the end of the 1800s. As a response to ...

This column on the art of the carousel is in response to readers who asked how volunteers actually carved the horses on the Berkshire Carousel. Figure carving for carousels became a lost art in 1930.

They used to carry us on their backs. Imagining ourselves as knights or cowgirls, we would straddle their broad carved saddles and pretend to pursue each other, as the band organ pumped out the ...

What better present or memento could there be for a newlywed couple than a copy of Horse & Hound with themselves on the cover? And not just any old copy of H&H, this one was created from a block of ...

Kary Barnett of Amarillo is the antique carousel's caretaker. He's overseen restoration of 56 of the ride's horses. Kary Barnett of Amarillo is the antique carousel's caretaker. He's overseen ...

LANESBOROUGH -- More than 100 supporters stopped by William Laston Jr. Memorial Field Saturday to celebrate the announcement that Lanesborough will be the home of the new Berkshire Carousel, which is ...

Make Mini Tractor From Wood With 4 Trailers and Puppies and Make Horse Cart From Wood A wooden mini tractor can be crafted ...

People sometimes ask Bill Schneider what he's going to do with the full-size wooden carousel horse he carved by hand last summer. "That wasn't the point," said Schneider, a retired NASA engineer. "I ...

A man has described how his hobby of wood carving has helped him to manage his ADHD. Mark Sharples, 32, from Stafford, started carving wooden objects to cope with boredom caused by his condition.

MILL HALL, Pa. — Chainsaws will echo across the Clinton County Fairgrounds this weekend as more than 50 wood carvers take part in the 10th annual Hooskow Carving Festival. "We have carvers from all ...

Cedar City • Woodcarver Steve Bartholomew came so close to an elk as a boy that he could see the bull's bloodshot eyes as it racked its horns against a tree. And once he stood still enough that a cow ...

MILL HALL, Pa. — Chainsaws will echo across the Clinton County Fairgrounds this weekend as more than 50 wood carvers take part in the 10th annual Hooskow Carving Festival. "We have carvers from all ...